Horn v. Horn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Washington county: MaetiN L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from that part of a judgment of the circuit court for Washington county which reverses an order of the Washington county court, under which certain personal property in the inventory of the administrator of the estate of Frederick Horn, deceased, was stricken therefrom on the ground that it was not the property of the deceased.
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecKER, J.
Frederick Horn died June 2, 1907, on bis faina in Washington county, leaving seven sons and daughters as his sole heirs at law and legatees. His wife had died in 1897. For about thirty years prior to his death he had been a paralytic and was unable to do manual labor. During the last years of his illness he occupied his bedroom on the see-ond floor of his home, being brought downstairs and out of the house only a' few times a year. His sons had lived at home 'and worked on his farms until they married. At the time of his death his children, with the exception of Louis, the youngest, had all…
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